Bait: A Novel

Six Strangers Wake Up On A Remote Island In The Florida Keys With No Memory Of Their Arrival. They Soon Discover Their Common Bond: All Of Them Are Heroin Addicts. As The First Excruciating Pangs Of Withdrawal Make Themselves Felt, The Six Notice A Yacht Anchored Across Open Water. On It Lurk Four Shadowy Figures, Protected By The Hungry Sharks That Patrol The Waves. So Begins A Dangerous Game. The Six Must Undertake The Impossible--swim To The Next Island Where A Cache Of Heroin Awaits, Or Die Trying. When Alliances Form, Betrayal Is Inevitable. As The Fight To Survive Intensifies, The Stakes Reach Terrifying Heights--and Their Captors' Motives Finally Begin To Emerge-- J. Kent Messum. A Novel.